The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was set to begin enforcement of the “click to cancel” rule on May 14, but a new release from the agency pushed that date to July 14. As is the case with many of the regulatory decisions lately by the Trump administration, there is a question on whether it will be enforced at all.
In its statement published to the FTC website Monday, the commission says it is pushing back the enforcement of the Negative Option Rule—which includes the Click to Cancel, making cancellations of subscriptions easier and preventing automatic renewal of services without the customer’s consent—for another 60 days. The FTC says it conducted a “fresh assessment of the burdens that forcing compliance by this date would impose,”leading to the delay.
